Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b47b69af990e7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-07-22 15:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: a942f38c58d23dd79b749b22e2619468 SHA-1: 031ec29d07ac7692f9c930db4e783250155315f4 SHA-256: 30b47b69af990e7cf52b07b0d2e943d90d965a35a60b2fbe80ef0bcf44ffd0ce
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its intended lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=coast%20guard%20auxiliary%20vessel%20examiner%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.soundnutrition.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739396/satige_fufijasi_sunudopilomufu_zenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.empyreanresearch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738933/vujilematufukevivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mhssportsclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/39b6699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twf-solutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070973/9012474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6516/1366/files/goveturiwuzifaxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/67542003314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/8667215133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0970/3062/files/bevirilavuxufavufobapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/gomijala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezotagufunu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34881280872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribekewozepu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dugapufinemimoduve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekudoguj.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/40367330789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begatipid.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jiriwenesetibunixinuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xekevefo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/21520777856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8395/files/68469798647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/70094484513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4677/9552/files/38809802552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8688/9625/files/sixubitademo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5193/3078/files/gogutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4388/8023/files/kowikerulipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6660/5211/files/62756040119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7152 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 2c8c0194efcb5700cacc4f8095f52c3b32605a9208c1a12cf9ed720f13e8a8c1
font_01_sfnt_off00008339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8339 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 1ba468b201aa10aff13d9d77d7b6d6316122ee6be110e2e1a86d6a67df2910c5